The Báb

SINCE thou hast faithfully obeyed the true religion of God
in the past, it behooveth thee to follow His true religion
hereafter, inasmuch as every religion proceedeth from God,
the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

He Who hath revealed the Qur’án unto Muḥammad,
the Apostle of God, ordaining in the Faith of Islám that
which was pleasing unto Him, hath likewise revealed the
Bayán, in the manner ye have been promised, unto Him
Who is your Qá’im,
1
your Guide, your Mihdí,
2
your
Lord, Him Whom ye acclaim as the manifestation of God’s
most excellent titles. Verily the equivalent of that which
God revealed unto Muḥammad during twenty-three years,
hath been revealed unto Me within the space of two days
and two nights. However, as ordained by God, no distinction
is to be drawn between the two. He, in truth, hath
power over all things.

I swear by the life of Him Whom God shall make manifest!
My Revelation is indeed far more bewildering than
that of Muḥammad, the Apostle of God, if thou dost but
pause to reflect upon the days of God. Behold, how strange
that a person brought up amongst the people of Persia
should be empowered by God to proclaim such irrefutable
utterances as to silence every man of learning, and be enabled
to spontaneously reveal verses far more rapidly than
anyone could possibly set down in writing. Verily, no God
is there but Him, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
XVI, 18.